Scale AI in South Africa using Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference with Anthropic Claude 4.5 models

Building AI applications with Amazon Bedrock presents throughput challenges impacting the scalability of your applications. Global cross-Region inference in the af-south-1 AWS Region changes that. You can now invoke models from the Cape Town Region while Amazon Bedrock automatically routes requests to Regions with available capacity. Your applications get consistent response times, your users get reliable experiences, and your Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail logs stay centralized in af-south-1.

Global cross-Region inference with Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5 and Opus 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock in the Cape Town Region (af-south-1) gives you access to the Claude 4.5 model family. South African customers can now use global inference profiles to access these models with enhanced throughput and resilience. Global cross-Region inference routes requests to supported commercial Regions worldwide, optimizing resources and enabling higher throughput—particularly valuable during peak usage times. The feature supports Amazon Bedrock prompt ...